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A BOAC Boeing 314 Clipper lands on Lagos Lagoon, 1943. BOAC inherited Imperial Airways' flying boat services to British colonies in Africa and Asia, but with the wartime loss of the route over Italy and France to Cairo these were replaced by the expatriate 'Horseshoe Route', with Cairo as a hub, and Sydney and Durban as end destinations ...
Poverty incidence of Boac 5 10 15 20 25 30 2006 24.70 2009 26.54 2012 7.50 2015 15.23 2018 13.44 2021 14.65 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Boac Business District view from Mercader Street Boac Business District view from Gov. D. Reyes Street In the centre of town, the Boac Public Market is one of the town's landmarks. Vendors sell dry and wet products in four air-conditioned buildings ...
A Boeing 747-100 in BOAC-British Airways transition livery (1976). Proposals to establish a joint British airline, combining the assets of the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and British European Airways (BEA), were first raised in 1953 as a result of difficulties in attempts by BOAC and BEA to negotiate air rights through the British colony of Cyprus.
Boac may refer to: Boac, Marinduque , a municipality in the central Philippines British Overseas Airways Corporation , abbreviated as BOAC, a former British state-owned airline
The Diocesan Shrine of Mahal na Birhen ng Biglang Awa was established on May 10, 2008 (the feast day of her canonical coronation) by then-Bishop of Boac Reynaldo Evangelista and Ricardo Cardinal Vidal of Cebu. The Shrine promotes the devotion to Mahal na Birhen ng Biglang Awa, the patron saint of the Diocese of Boac. It has mass every day, and ...
Sir Giles Connop McEachern Guthrie, 2nd Baronet, OBE, DSC, JP (21 March 1916 – 31 December 1979) was an English aviator, merchant banker and later, an airline industry executive, serving as the chairman and chief executive of the state owned airline British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC).
Sir Basil Smallpeice, KCVO (18 September 1906 – 12 July 1992) was an English accountant and businessman, who served as a director of several companies, including the state-owned airline British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), the shipping company Cunard and the mining-based conglomerate Lonrho.
Except for the Boeing 707 and early Boeing 747 variants from BOAC, British Airways inherited a mainly UK-built fleet of aircraft when it was formed in 1974. The airline introduced the Boeing 737 and Boeing 757 into the fleet in the 1980s, followed by the Boeing 747-400 , Boeing 767 and Boeing 777 in the 1990s.